Beauty & Cosmetic Surgery Guide 2016

Andrew Dawood

Dawood’s form of dentistry, honed over the past 30 years, might focus on elaborate jaw reconstructions and complex surgeries in cancer patients, but he’s just as meticulous when it comes to the basics (he stresses the importance of hanging on to your own teeth for as long as you can). He’s very modest, with an almost geeky love of gadgetry, and what excites him is ‘digital dentistry’. Take his laboratory. It’s an underground lair of 3D X-ray machines and scanners, the data from which he uses to make a simulation of the mouth, enabling him to predict the outcome of an operation before you even step foot inside the slick, gallery-like theatre (he’s whittled implant surgery down to less than an hour). Gizmos aside, he’s a stickler for oral hygiene – what really sets his teeth on edge is drinking hot water and lemon. ‘All it does is dissolve the enamel. What’s wrong with a cup of tea?’